The Irish Catholic (Michael Kelly) has launced a campaign to have Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, the Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican, declared a Righteous Gentile.
There's nothing much wrong with this, except maybe that I think he was already declared one - the
Irish Examiner says the tree was planted in 2003.
But apart from that, I think in principle Catholics should have nothing to do with the whole procedure until at a minimum they stop attacking Pope Pius XII. And really until they declare ...
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